School: Ardaghy, Omeath
- Location:
- Ardaghy, Co. Louth
- Teacher: B. Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 111
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- About fifty years ago there were two young men living in the townland of Bavan (a townland in the Omeath district) by the name of John Mullen R.I.P. and the other, Andy Traynor. About the first of June they were on top of Bavan mountain keeping their young cattle out at night. About twelve o'clock at night they heard music a little higher up than they were. They looked round and seen hundreds of little men marching just above them. In the middle of the crowd they were carrying a coffin on their shoulders. The men sat down an(d) watched the crowd for about twenty minutes till they came to a place on the top of Tulla mountain called Carna-vren-ar. They started to dig a grave. When the two men saw that, they made for home as fast as they could. When they came to Tulla Bridge there came a man out from under it about ten feet high and asked them were they night-walkers too. They never heard such a voice in all their life. They got such a fright that they came home and went to bed and did not rise for a week.
Tulla is a townland in the Omeath(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Fearon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bavan, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Owen Fearon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Bavan, Co. Louth
